Luca Marini’s sportscar rescued as floods terrorise Italy

Marini’s Audi sportscar was picture being towed away, with flooding from a nearby ꩵriver alread💛y reaching dangerously high levels.
Valentino Rossi, la supercar del fratello Luca Marini salvata da♍lla furia della piena inꦇ
— Leggo (@leggoit)
Marini was not present, but his future wifeꦏ was behind the wheel. She was unharmed.
The Ventena river is one of many which has flooded in Italy this week. The flood water ran into San Giovanni in Marignano, where this incident took pl𒊎ace.
🤡It is a neighbouring town to Tavullia, famously the hometown of Marini’s brother Valentino Rossi.
The area is next to Emilia Romagna, the region of Italy which has been particul🌄arly devastated by extreme weath🧸er.
Nine ♌people have died, thousands evacuated f♓rom their homes, and several remain missing.
The F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, schedu𝄹led for t🌸his weekend, was called off as a result.
And a celebration ꦉof Rossi’s career in Tavullia, due to be on Friday, was also postponed as a mark of respect to the victims of the floods.

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